Being A Geek Means You Never Have

Being A Geek Is Extremely Liberating

A Biological Agent, I’ll Buy. Some Sort Of Super-virus? Sure, Why Not. But Death? Death Is A Disability, Not A Superpower. It’s Hard To Run With A Cold, Let Alone The Most Debilitating Malady Of Them All.

I've Only Played Two Sort-of Slackers, In Spaced And In Shaun Of The Dead. They're Different People, But They Have The Same Kind Of Everyman Quality, Particularly As A Twentysomething.

It's Why I Get Miffed At All The Dashing Around In Recent Zombie Films. It Completely Misses The Point; Transforms The Threat To A Straightforward Physical Danger From The Zombies Themselves, Rather Than Our Own Inability To Avoid Them And These Films Are About Us, Not Them. There's Far More Meat On The Bones Of The Latter, Far More Juicy Interpretation To Get Our Teeth Into. The First Zombie Is By Comparison Thin And One Dimensional And Ironically, It Is Down To All The Exercise.

There Seems To Be This Tendency Toward Denigrating Romantic Comedies As Of Late Because It Becomes Something Sort Of Cheesy Or Whatever. Whereas This Embraced What It Was. As A Fan Of When Harry Met Sally Or Annie Hall, As A Demonstration Of What Romantic Comedy Could Be And Should Be, I Immediately Phoned Nira Back And Said, "yeah, I'd Like To Do This. It'll Be Fun."